I have no idea whether it will amuse anyone to play this sort of childhood idiocy game on-line, but I thought it might be fun to try. I am sure you all know how it works: (i) I (and each successive setter) put up a blank word (so that all you know is the number of letters) ; (ii) one of you guesses a letter and if you are correct it is inserted into the appropriate space(s) ;(iii) a wrong guess of a letter results in another step towards (a complete drawing of) the gallows ;(iv) as soon as there are enough letters to give you a chance, you try to guess the word;(v) if you guess successfully you win and set the next word ;(vi) if none of you guesses the word within a set number of guessed letters (probably ten, but let's see how we go), the setter wins and sets another word while the guessers get hanged ;(vii) you can try to guess the word at any stage regardless of whether you have been one of those to guess a letter, and there will be no limit on the number of word guesses.

Thanks guys, but we need to steady it down a bit: until you know which letters are wrong, you won't know which ones to try next!

It will be a (perhaps irritatingly) slow game, I'm afraid, as you will therefore have to give the setter a chance to respond to each letter. However, I will fudge things a bit to get us going.

There is no E (thanks Niki for starting us off and for the picture), and as the trick is usually to get the vowels first I will jump to Jema's A (no) and Curly's I (yes). I will then take Doreen's T (no) and MxM's N (yes). However, no offence, but I will ignore Gail's R, Haroula's S and Bernie's W at least for now in case you (or anyone else) want to rethink those given what you have learned about the word.

Panda Sue has kindly provided some graphics, so I am adding those.

So, another letter anyone?

Edited by Lex (03/30/1308:35 AM)

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